High school students, sports team members etc could provide their signatures, perhaps accompanied by their personal “logos” or favourite quotes.

Particularly effective for pre-schools but also schools in general, these class fundraising tea towels make amazing gifts, with parents tending to order several at a time, which in turn increases the average spend per customer, and allows fundraising goals to be met much quicker and more easily.

These items possess great appeal especially to grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends who cherish a tea towel featuring a handprint or hand drawn self portrait of their own clan.

There are 2 main approaches to achieving the desired design finishes.

The less common way is to buy blank tea towels, then have members of your group paint them using fabric paints or fabric dye sticks.

The second option is by far the most lucrative and easiest – have your tea towel (or dish towel) designed by your group members then printed in bulk.

We can print and ship Australia Wide. It doesn’t matter where your school is located, our team can organise and deliver everything to you.

Yes, I want to do a fundraiser, what now?

Getting Organised

Before you start, get organised and work out all details of your fundraiser:

Which products do you want to promote

Make an example of what it might look like,

Work out how many kids are going to do designs,

The campaign dates

When do you need the designs by?

When do you need to place the order with sufficient lead time?

Costing and the fundraising margin and minimum order

Goals you want to achieve (Why are you fundraising?)

Prepare all the materials

Put together the promotional materials you need to get started. This could include the following;

Writing a sales letter for the newsletter

Preparing posters and advertising materials for the fundraiser

Putting together samples and templates to help sell the offer

Writing persuasive letters to parents, carers and guardians

Promote the fundraiser

Time to tell everyone about the details and promote the fundraiser

Run notices in your newsletter – give plenty of time – maybe do a countdown over a number of weeks – offer discounts for early/or pre-purchases

Display the sample in a common area to give everyone a chance to see the size and quality

Put up posters with the details of your fundraiser

Prepare and distribute your parent order letters

After the promotional period, you need to decide whether to continue with the campaign or cancel it. You might decide to cancel, if you did not get an acceptable minimum order amount. Let’s image that you did get enough orders.

Preparing the Artwork

Organise the children who are going to submit their drawings or prints and some blank A4 paper cut in half. A5

Earlier, we described what type of artwork to provide. The three most popular types of artwork are;

Hand prints

Self portraits

Photos

So you can decide which type the class with be completing.

Handprints – to get the best results with handprints do not dip hands in the paint this creates too much smudging ( and it very messy) use a roller or Dap the paint on the hand with a sponge before pressing on to the paper

Self portrait – Designs can be done using black texters, or crayons. Have the child

Draw a picture of themselves

Photos – children could take a photo in class or they could bring in their own photos

Individual prints – I the child is doing an individual print. haven’t do it on an A4 piece of paper using any kind of colour paint/ crayon. As we can now do full colour individual prints

Make sure each child put their name on their artwork. Ideally, their names and class written at the bottom or under drawing.